Patents by Inventor David A. Weston

David A. Weston has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8476808
    Abstract: Disclosed is a tire mountable apparatus and methodology for mounting devices within a tire. In certain embodiments a signal generator may be mounted to the tire to generate signals based on changes in the radius of curvature of a tire. A piezoelectric sandwich and/or a substrate is/are provided having a length and width based at least in part on tire dimensions and positioned in the tire such that the longer length dimension is positioned laterally with respect to the width of the tire. The sandwich and/or substrate is/are sized such that the width dimension provides substantially no response to changes in the circumferential radius of curvature of the tire so that the length dimension defines the primary bending direction while the width dimension provides a strain free mount for associated devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique
    Inventors: David A. Weston, Damon L. Christenbury
  • Publication number: 20110140581
    Abstract: Disclosed is a tire mountable apparatus and methodology for mounting devices within a tire. In certain embodiments a signal generator may be mounted to the tire to generate signals based on changes in the radius of curvature of a tire. A piezoelectric sandwich and/or a substrate is/are provided having a length and width based at least in part on tire dimensions and positioned in the tire such that the longer length dimension is positioned laterally with respect to the width of the tire. The sandwich and/or substrate is/are sized such that the width dimension provides substantially no response to changes in the circumferential radius of curvature of the tire so that the length dimension defines the primary bending direction while the width dimension provides a strain free mount for associated devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventors: David A. Weston, Damon L. Christenbury
  • Patent number: 5835768
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for presenting information which reflects the users' cultural preference, including language and other conventions, that can manage locale categories without requiring application programs to manage all the overhead of repetitive changes to locale category values. Users merely specify their cultural preferences through the application programs and the operating system assigns a stack from the working memory for each specified category of cultural preference, and pushes onto the stack the location in the working memory of a file for the category of cultural preference specified, the file having been transferred from a locale database of files that contain code for formatting according to the cultural preferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1998
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gary Wayne Miller, Danial A. Rose, Robert Milton Smith, Baldev S. Soor, Luis C. Tan, G. David A. Weston
  • Patent number: D287350
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1986
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventor: David A. Weston
  • Patent number: D334362
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1993
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique
    Inventors: James E. Stone, David A. Weston